Oh dem Golden Slippers. Song & Chorus

Digital Sheet Music

By James Bland

Item Number: LV.14955

Oh dem Golden Slippers. Song & Chorus. Words and Music by James Bland, of Sprague's Georgia Minstrels. Arr. by F. Louis. Published 1879 by John F. Perry & Co., Music Publishers, 13 West Street in Boston. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include African Americans, Caricatures, Log cabins, Sunrises & sunsets, Homecomings, Symbols--death, Ethnic stereotypes, Dialects. First line reads "Oh, my golden slippers am laid away, Kase I don't 'spect to wear 'em till my weddin' day.".

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The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.

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